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000584 Pacific Institute Report - ,. "- " ,-., From the President Our second biennial water book, The World's Water 2001-2002 (published by Island Press) was published in Chinese, including our analysis of the Three Gorges Dam project. Thanks to a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and support from Island Press, we recently mailed out 400 free copies of these books to libraries and researchers in developing countries. The next volume of the book, coauthored by nine Pacific Institute staff members, is to be published in the spring of 2002. In other water-related news, Michael Cohen and Christine Henges- leck have released their new study "Missing Water: The Uses and Flows of Water in the Colorado River Delta Region." This new assessment of water use along the Colorado is the next step in our long-term effort to restore water to the threatened river delta ecosystem. Use of our water-related Website (www.worldwater.org) has been strong. We've logged more than one million hits since the beginning of the year, and that's on top of the more than 800,000 hits we've received on our main site. During the summer, I had the opportunity to brief senior representa- tives of the new Department of Defense on the risks of international conflicts over water resources. This was the first sign of interest in these issues by the new Bush administration and a sign of the influence and reputation of our work in the field of environment and security. More immediately relevant, we have completed a project on environ- mental terrorism and we have published a new paper - by Associate Elizabeth Chalecki - on our web site (www.pacinst.org) free of charge. It is making the rounds among policy makers and has been quoted in several newspaper articles on the subject. I'm proud to say that four recent or current staff members have gotten married in the past few months - an optimistic action in a pessimistic time. Much more is going on at the Pacific Institute - take some time to read the articles and the news of our activities. And if you want more information, let us know - our mission is to bring knowledge and new thinking to the places where it can be of most value. Continued from previous page Peter H. Gleick President The Pacific Institute Report is produced by the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security. 654 13th Street Oakland, CA 94612 510.251.1600 (Phone) 510.251.2203 (Fax) pistaff@pacinst.org www.pacinst.org Board Members Gigi Cae Dr. Anne H. Ehrlich Catherine Fox Dr. Peter H. Gleick Jim Mayer Richard Morrison Steven Nightingale Sam Schuchat Dr. Michael J. Watts Editor's Note Advisory Board Ambassador Richard E. Benedick Dr. Tracy Benning Kelly Cash Christina Desser John Gamboa Henry Izumizaki Dr. Michael F. Maniates Ms. Nancy Ramsey Dr. Peter H. Raven Hon. Claudine Schneider Dr. Stephen H. Schneider Peter Schwartz Mal Warwick Welcome to a new and improved Pacific Institute Report! As you peruse this issue, you may notice that certain sections have disappeared and others have been renamed or reconfigured. All this rearranging is an effort to make the newsletter more useful to our readers. And it's part of a larger effort to rethink how we communicate our work. The goal: to improve our outreach and get the knowledge we create into the right hands. How are we doing? Now's your chance to weigh in by responding to our online communica- tions survey. It's available on our Website (www.pacinst.org) from the front page. We look forward to hearing from you. Pacific Institute Report Editor, Nicholas L. Cain Nicholas L. Cain Communications Director newsletter _ editor@pacinst.org The Pacific Institute Report is printed on Process Chlorine Free 100% recycled paper with 50% post-consumer waste content $~~-